Executive Assistant
CourseraAbout the role
About Coursera
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
Why Join Us
At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
Job Overview:
We are looking for an Executive Assistant to the CEO to join Coursera and serve as the primary administrative partner to our CEO and a key operational partner to our Chief of Staff. This role ensures the CEO's time is protected and optimally deployed, the CEO office runs as a well-functioning system, and the executive leadership team has the administrative infrastructure it needs to operate with speed and precision.
At Coursera, the CEO's time is the company's most leveraged resource, and protecting, optimizing, and deploying that time effectively is the EA's primary charge. This role requires more than administrative excellence: it requires an ops mindset, high agility, and superb communication. The right person brings structure and predictability to a high-complexity environment, operates with minimal supervision, and shows up as a collaborative partner to every stakeholder they work with using the CEO's office to create access and find solutions, not to gatekeep or restrict.
Objectives of this role:
- Protect and maximize the CEO's time through precision and flawless execution of core administrative responsibilities
- Ensure the CEO office operates as a coordinated, well-run system rather than a collection of independent administrative tasks
- Partner with the Chief of Staff to drive CEO operations and administrative infrastructure
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across the organization, treating them as customers and consistently finding solutions that advance their needs alongside the CEO's priorities
- Establish and continuously improve repeatable systems and processes that reduce friction, create predictability, and scale the CEO office's effectiveness over time
- Earn a reputation as a trusted, solution-oriented partner to stakeholders across the organization – accessible, consistent in follow-through, and known for finding paths forward even when competing needs are in tension
Responsibilities:
- Own the CEO's calendar end-to-end, prioritizing meetings based on strategic importance, protecting focused work time, managing conflicts proactively, and ensuring the CEO is always prepared for what's next
- Plan and manage all CEO travel, events, and logistics, anticipating needs, building contingencies, and executing flawlessly including in last-minute and
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